Bill Text: NY A02020 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work; applies to all workers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - substituted by s6373b [A02020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02020-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2020--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  REYES, ABBATE, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DeSTEFANO,
          JEAN-PIERRE, CRUZ, SIMON, DE LA ROSA, GOTTFRIED,  COLTON,  DARLING  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
          mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Where  a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
     5  of this article, or emergency medical technician,  paramedic,  or  other
     6  person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
     7  dispatcher] worker  files  a  claim  for  mental  injury  premised  upon
     8  extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
     9  at  work, the board may not disallow the claim[,] upon a factual finding
    10  that the stress was not greater than that which usually  occurs  in  the
    11  normal work environment.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00070-05-1